Description

TALATON
SY 09 NE
6/185 Church Cottage
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GV II

Cottage. Probably C18. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or cob
stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof.
Plan: 2-room plan cottage built alongside the lane to the Church of St James (q.v)
on a north-side axis with the south end as the front. The parlour at the front has
a lateral stack on the left side and the kitchen behind has a projecting gable-end
stack. 2 storeys with secondary lean-to outshots along the east side.
Exterior: there is one window each floor. The ground floor casement may be
original and it contains rectangular panes of leaded glass (another at first floor
level in the rear end). The upper window is a late C19 - early C20 casement with
glazing bars. The front doorway is to right of the window and it contains a C19
part-glazed 6-panel door under a contemporary flat-roofed hood on shaped brackets.
The main roof is half-hipped at the front and gable-ended to rear.
Interior: was not available for inspection at the time of this survey.
Church Cottage is one of an exceptionally good group of listed buildings in the
vicinity of the Church of St James (q.v).

Listing NGR: SY0676899677

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456530

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2